While Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch & John Anthony West are undoubtedly ‘house-hold names’ in the Alt-history movement, the same might not be said of Randall Carlson.
Which is a bloody, unforgivable shame.
I first learned of Randall fairly recently, thanks in large part to the Podfather himself, Joe Rogan, who had him on his show The Joe Rogan Experience last May, and if you haven’t listened to it yet, you should correct that mistake immediately; but if you don’t have 3 hours to spare right now in order to listen to that JRE episode, here’s a shorter video composed of several of Randall’s lectures, in which he explains his interpretation of what the arcane tradition of the ancients’ lost knowledge (“the essence of the Great Work,” as he puts it) was all about: To show us ‘a way out’ from the constant cycles of destruction & rebuilding, brought upon our tiny paradisiacal planet by the cosmic envoys of Death —rogue comets & meteors.
“We are sitting ducks in a cosmic shooting gallery” he says; a claim which during the days of Velikovsky was considered fear-mongering pseudoscience, but that now is pretty much the standard discourse of mainstream Academia; for now we have mounting evidence that cosmic impacts are indeed much more frequent than we’d like them to be, and that comets may have had a key role in the modifying of our climate, as well as the fall of many cultures now lost in the sands of time. Randall’s mission in declassifying the Hermetic Secrets, is to ensure our civilization does not suffer the fate of our forefathers, and according to him that’s the whole reason why Momma Gaia raised us silly monkeys in the 1st place —very McKennaesque of him, yet I find it a fascinating idea nonetheless.
Carlson is one of Graham Hancock’s collaborators for Magicians of the Gods, the update to his best-seller Fingerprints of the Gods, so I expect that when the book comes out we’ll hear a lot more from Randall. Incidentally, my pals Darren & Graham of The Grimerica Show managed to book him for an interview this Saturday, so if you have some questions about his work in Catastrophism & Sacred Geometry, I’ll be happy to pass them along 🙂
You can also find more about him at his website, Sacred Geometry International.
